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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Recipes for SMEs growth according to Glo

Acclaimed Nigeria’s
fully integrated telecommunications company, Globacom has outline recipes
for the small businesses to adopt integrated and flexible communications
plan in order to improve their efficiency, cut cost and expand their bottom
lines, reports ITRealms.

Head, SME Business at
Glo, Mr. Mike Ehumadu, gave this advice at a Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise
(MSME) Trade Fair organised by the Nigerian Association of Small Scale
Industrialists (NASSI), Lagos Branch at Alausa Ikeja, Lagos, saying that
communication is one key aspect of any SME operation that can make a difference
between success and failure.

Mr. Ehumadu addressed a
gathering of small business owners operating in various sectors of the economy
ranging from agriculture through manufacturing, information and communications
technology to fashion and tourism on the third day of the fair, which was
designated as Glo Day.

As said by him, having
an integrated, yet flexible communication plan will enable SMEs to
cost-effectively access up-to-date information on their chosen fields, thereby
putting them ahead of their competition.

“It is a better world
today. You can sit in Nigeria and avail yourself of online training delivered
by experts from all over the world via YouTube or similar platforms. All that
is required is a smart device with data bundles,” he said.

According to him, this
precisely was the motivation for the introduction of SME Flexi by Globacom
recently. The package, according to Mr. Ehumadu, gives SMEs the integrated
communications solution.

He described Glo SME
Flexi as one-of-its-kind integrated plan ‘with unmatched value’ that gives
users the flexibility to call and use the internet without having to separately
buy data bundles. According to him, the package is available in various
denominations to suit the wallet of the SMEs.

The package includes SME
Flexi 500, SME Flexi 1000 and SME Flexi 2000. He explained that each of these
denominations gives its users specific number of talk time and certain number
of bytes for data use. For instance, SME Flexi 500 automatically gives its
users 60 minutes of talk time or 650 MB of data, SME Flexi 1000 gives 125
minutes of talk time or 2000MB of data, while SME Flexi 2000 gives 275 minutes
of voice call or 5000MB of data.

He further explained
that SME Flexi is compatible with Closed User Group (CUG) as well, meaning that
SME Flexi users can also integrate the solution with CUG, thereby enabling them
to call their members of staff free of charge for a whole month once they pay a
rental charge of N500 or N1000.

In addition to getting
an integrated communication solution, Mr. Ehumadu advised the SMEs to embrace
technology and install a proper accounting solution.